The Apple thread

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Geommy Wars-esque shooter for osx

$25 earth bucks? Fucking hell

[Gilby]

Yeah, it's pretty shit too. I posted before I played.
Nothing to see here. Move along.

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Geommy Wars-esque shooter for osx

$25 earth bucks? Fucking hell

500 MB hard drive space minimum

For a 95 meg download?

[Rod_S]

Geommy Wars-esque shooter for osx

Jesus. What about all the crying about "big name publishers stifle creativity" that we hear ALL the time? The shareware scene is the perfect place for ideas to flourish, but it's basically a circle jerk of clones and rip offs. I looked on MacGameFiles the other day, and it's just full of Arkanoid variants and utterly lame "arcade" games. And card games, lots of card games. You'd think that the Mac shareware scene would be full of experimental and innovative shit, non? Sadly 99% of it is a waste of bandwidth.

[WiteWulf]

I'm also back to broken Coverflow again since upgrading. Might reboot in a bit and see if that sorts it again...

There are new graphics drivers in a further update, after 10.5.2.
Have you downloaded them?

Ah, cheers Kemper...that sorted it

Why the hell can't they make stuff like this download at the same time? Admittedly, it's not as bad as patching a Windows box but it's still annoying.

*edit* WooHoo! XLD started working again, too. That last iTunes/Quicktime update broke it and I couldn't convert FLAC to ALAC but it's all tippety-top again now

[Jimaroid]

Jesus. What about all the crying about "big name publishers stifle creativity" that we hear ALL the time? The shareware scene is the perfect place for ideas to flourish, but it's basically a circle jerk of clones and rip offs. I looked on MacGameFiles the other day, and it's just full of Arkanoid variants and utterly lame "arcade" games. And card games, lots of card games. You'd think that the Mac shareware scene would be full of experimental and innovative shit, non? Sadly 99% of it is a waste of bandwidth.

It's an interesting problem. I don't have any evidence to substantiate this but my theory for the proliferation of clones and "well known" games is a matter of where the talent is spread. The basic reality is that there a lot of good programmers out there, there are also a lot of creative games heads out there. Unfortunately, the problem is that a creative programmer with a games head is quite a rarity and fact is that most small and shareware games are made by one person. So the situation is that there are lots of people that can and do make games in their own time but have no idea whatsoever when it comes how a game needs to work, so these people put efforts into making clones of games that they already know work. It's fair play and I'm not undermining the talent on either side of the problem but it means the consumer is the person that suffers. Is it worth putting up with all the clones and same old shit to be able to find the occasional shining gem? I reckon so.

I'll happily admit that I'm in neither camp, I'm jack of trades that hovers around like a big fly but I do know when you find a programmer that understands pure gameplay you've got something special.

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[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

That's an expensive looking fly-swat...

[GeeZa]

Impressions please gravy.

Well done Apple for fixing the Leopard UI oddities in reasonably short shrift (10.5.2 aint too long to wait *really*). Interesting how some of the decisions have been reversed as a direct result of user feedback. Looks like I'm going to have to finally upgrade my Macs to the latest and greatest. Looking forward to it.

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Impressions please gravy.

Still playing, it's the 1.6ghz HDD version. Very nice so far

[korruptor]

Monkey arms

[GeeZa]

Impressions please gravy.

Still playing, it's the 1.6ghz HDD version. Very nice so far

Cool, let us know after a bit of extended usage then, when you get a free moment. Particularly ergonomic stuff, if you try out the drive sharing thing, weight, noise, heat, performance etc. Pretty much sold on this being my next Mac but am gonna wait a little bit. That image shows off the thinness very well.

Must. Resist.

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My Mrs just said "That's filthy isn't it?"

[Wibble]

You have a surplus of apples.

[korruptor]

You can never have too many